clap·per

(klăp′ər)

1. One who applauds.

2. The tongue of a bell.

3. Slang The tongue of a garrulous person.

4. clappers Two flat pieces of wood held between the fingers and struck together rhythmically.

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clapper

(ˈklæpə)

1. a person or thing that claps

2. (Tools) a contrivance for producing a sound of clapping, as for scaring birds

3. Also called: tongue a small piece of metal suspended within a bell that causes it to sound when made to strike against its side

4. (Anatomy) a slang word for tongue¹

5. go like the clappers run like the clappers move like the clappers informal Brit to move extremely fast

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clap•per

(ˈklæp ər)

n.

1. a person who applauds.

2. the tongue of a bell.

[1250–1300]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	clapper - someone who applauds applauder extoller, laudator, lauder - someone who communicates high praise
	2.	clapper - a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity glossa, lingua, tongue organ - a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function articulator - a movable speech organ mouth, oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris - the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge; "he stuffed his mouth with candy" gustatory organ, taste bud, tastebud - an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue pharynx, throat - the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone
	3.	clapper - metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side tongue bell - a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck striker - the part of a mechanical device that strikes something

Translations

řehtačkasrdcesrdce zvonu

harangnyelvkereplőszélkelep

battaglio battente battola batacchio batocchio

язык

clapper

[ˈklæpəʳ] N [of bell] → badajo m (Cine) → claqueta f
to run like the clappers (Brit) → correr como loco

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

clapper

n (of bell) → (Glocken)klöppel m; to go/drive/work like the clappers (Brit inf) → ein Mordstempo draufhaben (inf)

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At first while they were still moving along the Kaluga road, Napoleon's armies made their presence known, but later when they reached the Smolensk road they ran holding the clapper of their bell tight- and often thinking they were escaping ran right into the Russians.

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He therefore applied to his bell, which he rung at least twenty times without any effect: for my landlady was in such high mirth with her company, that no clapper could be heard there but her own; and the drawer and chambermaid, who were sitting together in the kitchen (for neither durst he sit up nor she lie in bed alone), the more they heard the bell ring the more they were frightened, and as it were nailed down in their places.

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The confectioner of the town came out, and set up his booth there; and soon after came another confectioner, who hung a bell over his stand, as a sign or ornament, but it had no clapper, and it was tarred over to preserve it from the rain.

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The first shock of the clapper and the brazen wall made the framework upon which it was mounted quiver.

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When the large clapper thought proper to say "Twelve o'clock!" all its obedient followers opened their throats simultaneously, and responded like a very echo.

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"Here all is harmony; the devastation seems organized," said the colonel, pulling the chain of a bell; but the bell was without a clapper.

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But, even then, so heavy was the bell that it was not until Challenger and Summerlee had added their weight to ours that we heard the roaring and clanging above our heads which told us that the great clapper was ringing out its music.

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"Your tongue goes like the clapper of a mill-wheel.

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Afar, the watchmen of white men's houses struck wooden clappers and hooted in the darkness.

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"Today's decision in Kansas is exactly why Louisiana must pass the Love Life Amendment to the Louisiana Constitution," said Benjamin Clapper Executive Director of Louisiana Right to Life.

Kansas Decision Shows Importance of Louisiana's Love Life Amendment (HB 425)

If that's correct, why didn't Obama, Clapper and Brennan stop it?

Justice will be served